Day: 17 February 2016

JUMP Rope for Heart 2016

Tomorrow morning we will have an assembly put on by the Heart and Stroke Foundation.  Our representative, Sandra Griffin, will be running the assembly.  She will discuss the things that we should do to ensure a strong and healthy heart.  She will also talk about the annual fundraising campaign.

At Rosser we have been very involved in this activity for many years.  This is our 18th year of hosting a fundraising campaign and actively participating in a ‘JUMP’ event!!

Tomorrow afternoon students will be bringing home a letter explaining the programme.  They will also have a fundraising envelope and a paper heart.  Please help your child fill in the heart with the name of someone that they, or your family, knows who has been affected by heart or stroke concerns.  This should be returned to school so I can ‘build’ our heart wall in the gym.  If you can, or choose to, please consider making a donation to this worthy cause. There is information on how to participate on-line which makes it rather easy to do.  Students may also win prizes based on their fundraising.

Last year 40 students participated in Rosser’s fundraising.  If we have one more this year (so 41 students) then the school will be awarded a special set of gym equipment. Last year our little school raised $3101.81 for the Heart and Stroke Foundation!!!!  That is a truly amazing number for such a small school.  Income tax receipts are issued for deductions.

Our actual JUMP event will be on the afternoon of Friday, February 26th from 1:05 – 3:00.  Students will be jumping with their buddy class.  It is a lot of fun that the students really enjoy.

100’s Day

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Today was the 100th day of school this year.  Students were very excited when we added the 100th straw to our Place Value pocket, and changed our running ‘days in school’ total, during Calendar.

Students brought in collections of 100 items.  They also brought in food items (100 each) to add to our 100’s Day Hash.  We will be eating this hash tomorrow (101st Day) with a special movie that we will be watching with the Kindergarten class in the afternoon.  They will tell you about it tomorrow after school.

Some of the activities that we did today were: making necklaces with 10 groups of 10 different coloured Fruit Loops; and making crowns with tally marks (20 groups of 5). These crowns were attached to head bands on which they put 20 stickers (hopefully in a pattern) and wrote the numbers 5 to 100, counting by 5’s. We also began to work in a booklet with ‘hundreds’ of math questions in it.  We will continue working on these tomorrow.

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It was a hectic day – one of many this month!!  There is never a dull moment in grade 1 …

Valentine’s Day

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We had a nice, quiet celebration last Friday (February 12th) when the children delivered valentines to their friends. We decorated red foam hearts with beads, stickers, and other shapes.

We also created these ‘Valentine Puppies’ out of construction paper that we cut into heart shapes and then cut and arranged them to make the dogs.  Spots were added on with red paint by using a finger as a paint brush.

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These are on display on the bulletin board in the hallway between our classroom and the office.  Check them out when you get a chance.